NATS101-34 Quiz 4 Study Guide

The quiz will focus on pressure and winds specifically Ch 6 and 7.

Key topics

What is Geostrophic balance?

Be able to determine where the low and high pressure are based on cloud motion

What can be determined about the weather from the 500 mb charts

What are troughs, ridges, closed and cutoff lows

Regions of divergence and convergence on upper air charts and why these are important

How friction near the surface causes winds turn toward lower pressure

How this causes convergence into the low, rising motion which causes “bad” weather

And the opposite for regions of high surface pressure

Thermally direct circulations: Sea breeze, monsoon, mountain valley breeze

Questions for review:

Ch 6: 1-3, 7-24, 27

Ch 7. 1-9, 12-17

Know your states!

Make sure you can answer questions from Quiz 3